How hard is it to run mailman (including the bounce management thingie) without running its web interface? We are moving our mail server to another machine which will not run any web servers.
At 12:23 PM -0500 2005-01-28, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
How hard is it to run mailman (including the bounce management thingie) without running its web interface? We are moving our mail server to another machine which will not run any web servers.
Mailman wasn't designed to be used that way. There are some people who've done it (because their server is so heavily loaded that the web interface would not be capable of handling the job), but so far as I know, no documentation has been drawn up to document their work.
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On 29/01/2005, at 1:23 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
How hard is it to run mailman (including the bounce management thingie) without running its web interface? We are moving our mail server to another machine which will not run any web servers.
Another way of looking at the same problem is: why don't you keep mailman on the web server, and just use SMTPDirect for mailman to call through to your mail server to send mail out? I've also found it surprisingly easy to run fetchmail on a web server to pull down incoming mail from the mail server -- about the only thing you lose is the tight integration of mailbox creation, so you might have to manually create all those xxx-admin, xxx-bounces mailboxes.
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